Red Devil Dawn (Reissue)

Crooked Fingers: Red Devil Dawn (Reissue)

But the album-being issued on vinyl for the first time ever, and with some killer bonus demos digitally-also nudges open the door to where Bachmann would take Crooked Fingers next. "Sweet Marie" adds jaunty horns to a withering-but-somehow-sweet story about infidelity, and also manages to include the line "I swear I’m gonna set that pussy bastard straight." And elsewhere, there's more hope in the darkness than ever, though it can be hard to recognize at first. But at the end of "Disappear," he sums up both Crooked Fingers' past and its future: "There’s beauty in an ugly thing, redemption in demise." That’s Red Devil Dawn writ small and simple: It finds the specks of light in the darkest rooms, and spins the whole picture into a gorgeous whole.